Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?

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My brother works in molecular biology; he tells me the field’s understanding of peptides have only just begun and it’s only through machine learning that they are now starting to make progress. 99% seem to be post-translational garbage, the other 1% is likely to be the basis of a revolution of treatment options.

I work in computational biophysics. The field has been slowly chipping away at the structure and function of every protein for decades (it's a solvable problem, it's just going to take a lot of time and energy) and recently a bunch of clueless SF tech bros have bumbled their way into the field and declared that they've solved everything.

Yeah, I get the same impression from my brother; he’s active on the science side of the field (recently published in Nature Communications about AI and peptides) and his pet hate is Kurzweil and their ilk.

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